Timeline December 1846

Events in December 1846 4

• 1846 Battle of San Pasqual Californios check Kearny's advance Andrés Pico's Californio lancers struck Stephen Kearny's exhausted dragoons near present-day San Diego. The Americans lost more than 20 men killed and had to be rescued by a relief force.
• 1846 Premiere of Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust Berlioz's dramatic legend fails in Paris Hector Berlioz staged the first performance of La Damnation de Faust at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. It drew small audiences and lost him a lot of money, but later became one of his most performed works.
• 1846 Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty US guarantees transit across the Isthmus of Panama New Granada gave the United States right of way across the Isthmus of Panama. In return the US guaranteed the isthmus's neutrality and New Granada's sovereignty there.
• 1846 Iowa admitted to the Union Iowa becomes the 29th US state President Polk signed the act admitting Iowa as a state. It was the first free state formed from the Louisiana Purchase west of the Mississippi.